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BCC is the W schools' middle class cousin, OP. I think people mistakenly assume it's excellent because it has IB (which isn't that great when you're applying to US colleges) and there's "Bethesda" right in the name. The schools offering the most AP courses (which ARE useful for applications to US colleges because they match college classes better), the most academically-oriented student bodies, and the best teachers, are: Walt Whitman, Wooton, Winston Churchill, and Walter Johnson.

The other side of the coin is that these W schools are all pressure cookers. Your kid needs 15 APs to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack. He is competing for college spots with seriously high-achieving peers that have a support system of wealthy parents with internship connections, private tutors and possibly private college counselors. At BCC, there's a little more room to breathe... and fewer APs, and hardly any post-AP math classes. Maybe your kid won't need 15 APs to stand out. Maybe just 10-12.  It won't be impossible to be one of the top students, just very difficult. BCC is a little more socio-economically diverse than some of these other W schools (there are rent-controlled apartments in downtown Bethesda, which is otherwise pretty wealthy).

That's it in a nutshell. [/quote]

They cannot even qualify to take 15 is only one is allowed freshman year.[/quote]

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